Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel at bmts dot com>]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/9/2008 7:05 AM:
> > > Install seems to strip the .exe extension in the process of copying
> > > files to the destination directory.
> > Install *copies* files.  The resulting filename is not under control of
> > Cygwin but exclusively under control of the copying application.  This
> > is different from rename and link which are OS functions and thus
> > implemented in Cygwin.
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> What this really means is that I need to add another cygwin-specific patch
> in coreutils to make install keep track of .exe magic - if the user
> specified a file without the suffix, but the real file has the suffix,
> then the target should be created with the suffix (no different than some
> of the .exe magic already in mv and cp).

Exactly. What happens now is that the .exe extension is simply stripped
off during the copy.

As I noted before, the Cygwin User's Guide currently implies that
install will fail in this scenario.

The exe magic seems to be a rich source of headaches. I'm glad somebody
smarter than me is looking after it :-)

Ralph

PS. Sorry for hijacking (not too far) this thread.

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